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IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 


IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. 


Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Bureau of Immigration, 
Washington , />. 6 y ., August %6, 1003. 

Rule 1. Collectors of customs shall collect,.as provided in section 1 
of the act approved March 3, 1903, a duty of $2 for each and every 
passenger, not a citizen of the United States, or of Canada, or of 
Cuba, or of Mexico, who shall come by steam or sail vessel from any 
foreign port to any port within the United States; but no duty shall 
be paid for such passengers proceeding in continuous transit through 
the United States to foreign territory, nor for those who have once 
been admitted to the United States and have paid the head tax who 
shall later go in transit from one part of the United States to another 
through foreign contiguous territory. 

Rule 2. Under the authority contained in the proviso to section 1 
of the act approved March 3, 1903, the duty of $2 levied upon rail¬ 
ways or other transportation agencies for passengers brought by 
them overland from foreign contiguous territory shall be collected, 
until otherwise provided, in accordance with the terms of an agree¬ 
ment between the Commissioner-General of Immigration and cer¬ 
tain transportation companies of the Dominion of Canada, of date 
November 1, 1901. 

Rule 3. All such moneys so collected, as well as all moneys col¬ 
lected for rentals of exclusive privileges at United States immigrant 
stations, shall be deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United 
States on account of “immigrant fund,” with an assistant treasurer of 
the United States, or national-bank depositary, in the same manner as 
other miscellaneous collections are reported. Separate accounts of 
the receipts and expenditures of money under the act shall be rendered 

monthly to the Secretary of the Treasury through the Department of 

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Commerce and Labor, on forms to be furnished by the Government 
for the purpose. 

Rule 4. Every railway company or other transportation agency 
claiming exemption from payment of the head tax for any passenger 
brought by it to a point on the land boundary of the United States for 
entry thereat, under the exemption from such payment provided in 
section 1 of the act approved March 3,1903, shall produce to the appro¬ 
priate officer at such point a letter from an immigration officer at, or 
nearest to, the alleged residence of such passenger, stating that after 
investigation said immigration officer has ascertained that said passen¬ 
ger had already been lawfully admitted to the United States and that 
the head tax for his admission had been paid at the time of such admis¬ 
sion, and said company or other transportation agency shall also show, 
as evidence that the transit of such passenger was continuous, the 
dated ticket issued to such passenger. 

Rule 5 . The head tax provided for in section 1 of the act approved 
March 3, 1903, shall be collected and paid for every alien passenger 
not specifically excepted therein. 

Rule 6 . The provisions of the immigration laws, and of regulations 
passed thereunder, except those of section 1 of the act of March 3, 
1903, in relation to the payment of the head tax, extend to all persons 
not citizens of the United States either by birth or by naturalization 
therein. 

Rule 7 . Every alien arriving at a port of the United States shall be 
promptly examined, as by law provided, either on shipboard or at some 
other place designated for that purpose. If found admissible, he shall 
be at once landed, but if upon special inquiry he is denied admission, 
he shall be informed that he has a right of appeal therefrom, and the 
fact that he has been so informed shall be entered of record in the 
minutes of the board’s proceedings, but no appeal will be considered 
after any such alien has, in consequence of an adverse decision of a 
board of special inquiry, been transferred from an immigrant station 
to be deported. 

Rule 8 . Every alien detained for special inquiry, which shall be 
conducted separate and apart from the public, shall have a speed}^ 
hearing and, upon the conclusion thereof, be either at once landed or 
ordered deported. If he elects to appeal from said order of deporta¬ 
tion, he must, to enable officers to comply with the provisions of sec¬ 
tion 19 of the act of March 3,1903, lile notice of such appeal promptly, 
and a like right of appeal may be exercised by any member of a board 
of special inquiry who dissents from the decision rendered by such 
board. 

Rule 9. Every such notice ol‘ appeal shall act as a stay upon the 
disposal of the alien whose rights are thereby affected until a final 




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decision is rendered by the Department; and, within thirty-six hours 
after the filing* of such notice, the record of the case, together with 
such briefs, affidavits, and statements as are to be considered in con¬ 
nection therewith, should be forwarded to the Commissioner-General 
of Immigration by the chief immigration officer at the port of arrival, 
accompanied by his views thereon in writing; but on such appeal of 
any case to the Department no evidence will be considered which has 
not already been passed upon in said case by a board of special inquiry. 
If additional time is granted to the friends or counsel of an appealing 
alien to prevent a miscarriage of justice, the said chief officer may 
require the deposit of a sum of money sufficient to defray the cost of 
maintaining appellant during the additional time thus allowed. 

Rule 10. The commissioner of immigration or the chief immigra- 
tion officer at the port of landing shall enter of record the name of 
every alien found upon examination to be within any of the prohib¬ 
ited classes, with a statement of the decision- in each case; and if 
such decision be appealed from, immediately upon the receipt from 
the Department of its conclusions thereupon the alien shall be at 
once landed or deported in accordance with such conclusion. If a 
landing is refused on appeal, the master, agent, consignee, or owner 
of the vessel by which the said alien arrived shall be notified thereof 
by the commissioner or chief immigration officer, and that the said 
alien will be placed on the said vessel to be returned as aforesaid. 

Rule 11. Attorneys and persons appearing in behalf of detained 
aliens shall not be permitted to charge a sum exceeding ten dollars 
($10) in each case, unless the commissioner shall, in writing, allow 
an additional compensation, which fee shall be pa} T able through the 
commissioner. Anyone charging an alien a fee prior to his detention, 
or charging or receiving from an alien or his relatives or friends a 
fee, gift, or compensation for his services in excess of above rates, 
or who shall deprive an alien of any part of his chattels or effects in 
lieu of, or as security for, said fee, shall not be permitted to practice 
at any immigrant station of the United States. 

Rule 12. The expenses incurred for the keeping and maintenance 
of every alien temporarily removed from a vessel, as provided by 
law, shall be borne by the owner or owners of the vessel upon which 
he came until lie is lawfully landed or delivered on board such vessel 
for deportation. 

Rule 13. The master, agent, owner, or consignee of any vessel on 
which aliens are brought to the United States shall, at least twenty- 
four hours in advance thereof, notify the commissioner of immigra¬ 
tion of the intended time of sailing of such vessel, in order that said 
officer may place on board thereof every alien brought thereon who 
has been refused a landing. 

Rule Id. Every alien professing to seek a landing for the purpose 


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of proceeding directly through the United States to a foreign coun¬ 
try shall he examined, and, if found to be a member of ^ any one of 
the excluded classes, shall be refused permission to land in the same 
manner as though he intended to remain in the United States. 

Rule 15. No alien desiring admission at a port of the United States 
for the professed purpose of proceeding directly therefrom to foreign 
territory shall be permitted to land thereat except after deposit with 
the collector of customs at said port by the master or owner of the 
vessel on which such alien is brought of the amount of the head tax 
($2) prescribed by section 1 of the act approved March 3, 1903, said 
amount to be refunded upon proof satisfactory to the immigration 
officer in charge at the port of arrival that said alien has passed by 
direct and continuous journey through and out of the United States. 

Rule 16. Every alien who left the port of embarkation in good 
physical condition, and who would be qualified to land but for some 
sickness or disability other than a loathsome or a dangerous con¬ 
tagious disease, which was contracted or which developed during 
the voyage, may either remain on shipboard or be removed for hos¬ 
pital treatment at the expense of the owners of the vessel on which 
he came, and while detained in hospital he shall not be considered 
as landed, provided that if the sickness or disability with which 
such alien is afflicted is so slight, in the judgment of the examining 
medical officer, as not to require treatment in hospital, and said alien 
is able to pay for the necessary medical care he needs, he shall be 
landed. Requests by such owners for reimbursement for hospital 
expenses may be made only in respect of aliens detained under the 
provisions of this rule, and then only in a proper manner. 

Rule IT. Any alien who has been lawfully landed, but who has 
become a public charge from subsequently arising physical inability 
to earn a living which is likely to be of a permanent nature, may, 
with the approval of the Bureau of Immigration, be deported within 
one year from date of landing, at the expense of the immigrant fund, 
provided that such alien is delivered to the immigration officers at a 
designated port free of charge; and the charges incurred for the care 
and treatment of any such alien in any public or charitable institu¬ 
tion from the date of notification to the Bureau of Immioration until 

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the expiration of one year after landing may be paid from the immi¬ 
grant fund at fixed rates agreed upon. 

Rule 18. Any alien who has been finally determined to be admis¬ 
sible may be permitted to wait for friends or remittances upon pay¬ 
ment by him of expenses incurred by reason of such delay. In case 
such an alien is unable, from accident or other unavoidable circum¬ 
stances, to immediately continue his journey, and is without sufficient 
means to defray the expense of his enforced delay, the commissioner 
of immigration may, in his discretion, pay said expense, reporting 


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said case to the Bureau of Immigration with reasons for his action, and 
request that such expense be repaid out of the immigrant fund. 

Rule 19. Not over one accompanying alien (preferably the natural 
guardian or a relative) shall be detained at the expense of the trans¬ 
portation company for the purpose of caring for an alien who, for any 
reason, is detained for further inquiry, if the latter requires such care. 
(See sec. 11, act approved March 3, 1903.) 

Rule 20. No application for the admission under bond of a debarred 
alien will be considered except in cases in which deportation of the 
alien in whose behalf such application is made would involve the sepa¬ 
ration of immediate members of a family, and in that case only when 
a deposit of money is made sufficient to defray the expense of main¬ 
taining such alien whilst awaiting a decision upon such application. 

Rule 21. The cost of returning aliens under the provisions of sec¬ 
tions 19 and 20 of the act approved March 3, 1903, shall include all 
expenses incurred for maintenance of such aliens after such cases are 
brought to the attention of the Bureau of Immigration, provided said 
Bureau, upon investigation, has ascertained the case to be one for 
deportation and has so ordered. 

Rule 22. Every immigration officer deporting any alien under the 
provisions of section 20 of the act of March 3, 1903, shall submit to 
the Bureau of Immigration for approval bills for one-half the cost of 
inland transportation of such alien to the seaport of deportation 
against the vessel or transportation line by which such alien was 
brought to the United States, in order that the amount so expended 
by any such officer may be collected and returned to him. 

Rule 23. In case of the failure of the master or commanding 
officer of any vessel bringing aliens to any port within the United 
States to deliver to the immigration officers at said port lists or mani¬ 
fests of such aliens, as required in sections 12, 13, and Id of the act 
approved March 3, 1903, there shall be paid to the collector of cus¬ 
toms at the port of arrival the sum of $10 for each alien concerning 
whom the information required by such sections is not contained in 
any list or manifest as aforesaid. Under an opinion of the Solicitor 
of the Treasurv, the tine mentioned in this rule can not be remitted. 

Rule 24. The certificate required by section 8 of the act approved 
March 3, 1893, shall be filed with the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor upon the first days of January and July of each year. 

Rule 25. No charge for food, lodging, or maintenance, or for hos¬ 
pital attendance, medicines, or other hospital expenses shall be made 
in excess of the actual cost of furnishing the same, the intention being 
to make the Service self-sustaining without profit. 

Rule 23. Every officer of the United States Public Health and 
Marine-Hospital Service detailed under section 17 of the act approved 
March 3,1903, for duty to any point in the United States shall, during 



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the continuance of such detail, be under the direction (subject to the 
Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service regulations governing the 
medical inspection of aliens, as approved by the Secretary of the 
Treasuiy November 18, 1902) of the immigration officer in charge of 
the said port. 

Rule 27. There shall be made by the commissioners of immigration 
at the various ports of the United States and Canada weekly reports 
to the Bureau of Immigration containing a list of all aliens detained 
from Sunday morning until Saturday night, inclusive, of each week, 
in which shall be embodied the following information: Name of alien; 
age and sex; date of arrival; vessel on which alien arrived; date of 
detention; cause of detention; whether case has been disposed of, and 
if so, what disposition has been made of it. 

Rule 28. Officers employed in the administration of the immigra¬ 
tion and Chinese-exclusion laws are notified that all communications 
to the Department upon official matters must be addressed to the 
Commissioner-General of Immigration or to the Secretary of Com¬ 
merce and Labor. 

F. P. Sargent, 

Commissioner - General of Immigration. 

Approved: 

Geo. B. Cortelyou, 

Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 


EXAMINATION OF ALIEN SEAMEN UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE 

LAWS REGULATING IMMIGRATION. 


1903. 

Department Circular No. 10, 
Bureau of Immigration. 


Department of Commerce and Labor, 
Office of the Secretary, 

Washington , August 7, 1903. 


To commissioners of immigration and other officers charged with the 
administration of the various laws ‘pertaining to the immigration of 
aliens: 


In view of the opinion of the Attorney-General of the United States, 
of date September 10, 1901 (28 Op., 521), you are hereby instructed 
that it is your duty to make such an investigation of every vessel 
arriving at a port of the United States from any other than a main¬ 
land or continental port thereof, as will enable you to ascertain the 
members of their respective crews who are aliens, as well as the inten¬ 
tion of such alien members in seeking a landing. 

(1) Alien seamen who seek to land, in the regular course of their 
pursuit, with the bona fide intention of departing as soon as practicable 
upon some outward-bound vessel, are not to be held for examination 
touching their right to land under the various acts regulating immi . 





IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 


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gration into the United States, nor shall the masters of the vessels 
upon which they come to a port of the United States be charged on 
their account with the head tax prescribed by section 1 of the act 
approved March 3, 1903. 

(2) Alien seamen who are discharged, or are to be discharged, or who 
have deserted their vessel at a port of the United States with any other 
object in view than departing as described in the next preceding para¬ 
graph (1) are in no respect to be distinguished on account of their 
prior calling or occupation as seamen from other aliens seeking admis¬ 
sion to this country, either as regards collection of head tax on their 
account or as respects the examination and determination of their 
right to remain under the various acts regulating immigration. 

(3) All other aliens signed on the ship’s articles of any vessel arriv¬ 
ing at a port of the United States shall be examined, and in all respects 
regarded, as alien passengers, on account of whom the head tax should 
be collected and who should be admitted, or ordered returned to the 
countries whence they came, in accordance with the laws and regula¬ 
tions governing immigration. 

Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary. 


[Bureau Circular No. 8.] 

REGULATIONS GOVERNING WARRANTS—IMMIGRATION SERVICE. 


Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Bureau of Immigration, 

Washington , February 5 , 190 f 

To all officers charged with the enforcement of the immigration laws: 

You are hereby directed to conform in future, in making application 
for warrants for the arrest and deportation of aliens found unlawfully 
in the United States, to the following regulations: 

(1) All such applications must be made, if possible, upon blank 
forms (No. 1565), which will be furnished upon written request to the 
Commissioner-General of Immigration, Department of Commerce and 
Labor, and which must be tilled out in accordance with the printed 
lines contained therein, and be accompanied by the certificate of land¬ 
ing or entry (Form No. 1561), hereinafter prescribed, or if not so 
accompanied the reasons for the absence of such certificate must be 
given, and in that case all the facts called for in the blank form of said 
certificate shall be set forth in the application, so far as the facts are 
ascertainable. 

(2) A full statement must be made in every such application of the 
facts, supported if practicable by affidavits, which show the presence 
in the United States of the alien, whose arrest and deportation is 
sought, to be in violation of law. 

(3) The certificate of landing in, or entry into, the United States 
must contain a complete statement in detail of all the facts disposed as 
to any such alien by the manifest or list containing his name, with an 
attached certificate by the officer in charge of such manifest that the 
information given agrees in all particulars with the record of such 
alien in said list or manifest. 

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(4) li‘ the circumstances of any particular case necessitate resort to 
request by wire, such request must state that the foregoing regula¬ 
tions have been complied with, and that the form of application and 
certificate hereinbefore mentioned have been forwarded to the Depart¬ 
ment, and must give the substance of the statement of facts contained 

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in the said application and certificate. 

(5) If, upon the receipt of any such application and certificate, or of 
the request by wire provided for in paragraph 4, either completely in 
conformity with these regulations or accompanied by a satisfactory 
explanation of inability to comply therewith, it appears to the Secre¬ 
tary that the alien whose arrest and deportation is sought is in the 
United States unlawfully and that the time within which he can be 
deported has not expired, a warrant for his arrest will be issued direct¬ 
ing that he be taken before an officer, or officers, named therein, and 
there b6 given full opportunity to show cause, if there be any, why he 
should not be deported, and as soon as arrested said alien shall be 
apprised of his right to be represented by counsel, and he and his 
counsel shall have the right to inspect all the evidence upon which the 
Secretary has acted in directing said alien’s arrest, and be given an 
opportunity to offer evidence and submit an argument in his behalf, 
and be given an opportunity to inspect and make a copy of the report 
of the hearing and of the findings of the officers before whom it is held. 
In case said alien is unable to understand or to speak the English 
language, an interpreter shall, if possible, be employed at the hearing. 

(6) If, after the receipt of the report of such hearing, accompanied 
by the findings of the officers before whom it was held, it shall appear 
to the satisfaction of the Secretary, from all the evidence, that such 
alien is in the United States in violation of law and that the time within 
which he can be deported has not expired, a warrant will be issued for 
his deportation. 

(7) Officers are warned that their duties are. not of an inquisitorial 
nature; but they are directed to make thorough investigation of all 
cases where they are credibly informed, or have reason to believe, that 
a specified alien is in the United States in violation of law. It is not 
permissible for officers to resort to intimidation by threats or violence 
in order to extort from any suspected alien or from any other person 
the information to be embodied in the application for the warrant of 
arrest. 

F. P. Sargent, 

Conimissioner- General . 

Approved: 

Geo. B. Cortelyou, 

Secretary . 


IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 


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MEDICAL CERTIFICATES UPON MANIFESTS OF ALIENS BROUGHT TO THE 
UNITED STATES ON VESSELS SAILING WITHOUT SURGEON. 


1904, Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Department Circular No. 50, • OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 

Bureau of Immigration. Washington, October -1, 100 If . 

To whom it may concern : 

The immigration act approved March 3, 1903 (section 14), requires 
that when iio surgeon sails with a vessel bringing aliens to the United 
States the mental and physical examination of such aliens shall be 
made by ‘‘some competent surgeon employed by the owners of the 
said vessel." 

The certificate (unverified) of a responsible surgeon at the point of 
embarkation or at the last port of call, in the form appearing upon 
the reverse side of the manifest (Form 1500), will, until further notice, 
be accepted by immigration officers as a compliance with the statute. 

Section 15 of the act approved March 3, 1903, reads as follows: 

“That in the case of the failure of the master or commanding officer 
of any vessel to deliver to the said immigration officers lists or man¬ 
ifests of all aliens on board thereof as required in sections twelve, 
thirteen, and fourteen of this act, he shall pay to the collector of cus¬ 
toms at the port of arrival the sum of ten dollars for each alien con¬ 
cerning whom the above information is not contained in any list as 
aforesaid.” 

LA WREN C E ( ). M U KRAY, 

Acting Secretary. 


PROCEDURE FOR IMPOSITION OF FINES ON ACCOUNT OF BRINGING 
DISEASED ALIENS TO THE UNITED STATES. 


Department Circular No. 58, 
Bureau of Immigration. 


Department of Commerce and Labor, 
Office of the Secretary, 

Washington , January °25, 1005. 

To whom it may concern: 

As a means of enforcing the collection of any fine imposed under the 
provisions of section 9 of the immigration act approved March 3,1903, 
the said section directs the refusal of clearance papers to any vessel 
bringing any alien, diseased as described therein, to a port of the 
United States. 

To avoid, on the one hand, the denial of reasonable time to the 
master, agent, owner, or consignee to show cause why such fine should 
not be imposed, and, on the other hand, the loss of the summary and 
effective means provided for the collection of such fines, the following 
regulations are hereby promulgated: 

1. Medical certificates. —The certificate of the medical examiner in 
the case of an alien afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious 
disease shall state in terms whether, in his judgment, the “existence 







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of such disease might have been detected by means of a competent 
medical examination at the port of foreign embarkation.” 

2 Notification .—Upon the receipt of a medical certificate in compli¬ 
ance with the preceding paragraph hereof, the commissioner of immi¬ 
gration or inspector in charge at the port of arrival shall at once serve 
notice upon the master, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel upon 
which such alien arrived, in the following form, printed blanks for 
that purpose to be procured from the Department, viz: 

Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Immigration Service, 

Office of. 

Port of.. 


.of the steamship 

[Master, agent, owner, or consignee.] 


In conformity with the requirements of Department circular No. 58, you are hereby 
notified that a certificate of the examining surgeon, based upon a physical examination 
of the alien whose name is shown herein, indicates that a fine should be imposed 
under the provisions of section 9 of the immigration act approved March 3, 1903. 

If you desire to submit evidence to show that the said fine should not be imposed 
in this instance, you will be allowed fourteen days from the date of this notice for 
that purpose, and the vessel on which the said alien arrived will be granted clearance 
papers when she is ready to sail and allowed to proceed upon her outward-bound 
voyage, upon condition that you deposit with the collector of customs at this port 
within twenty-four hours after the receipt of this, or, if Said vessel shall sail sooner, 
prior to her sailing, the sum of one hundred dollars as security for the payment of 
the said fine, should it be imposed. 

Name of alien. Steamship. Disease. 


(Signature) 


(Title) 


Received the above notice 


(Witness:) 


, 190.., at.M. 

[Time.] 


The notification shall be prepared in triplicate , the original to be 
delivered by an employee of the Immigration Service at the office of 
the master, agent, owner, or consignee to whom it is addressed, said 
emplo}^ee to witness the signature of the recipient. Receipt of service 
shall be indorsed upon the duplicate and triplicate, the duplicate to be 
returned to the office of the commissioner of immigration or inspector 
in charge and preserved as proof of delivery, and the triplicate to be 
delivered to the collector of customs, who will withhold clearance 
papers until the deposit is made. 

3. Deposit .—The special deposit of $100 required to sta\^ action for 
the period of fourteen days shall be made to the collector of customs 
for the district wherein the port of arrival is located within twent}^- 
four hours after delivery of the above-described notice, or, if said ves¬ 
sel sails sooner, before such sailing, and in default thereof all further 
proceedings shall be discontinued and the facts certified to the Bureau 
of Immigration by first mail, together with the medical certificate and 
duplicate notice, in order that such action may be taken as the evi¬ 
dence requires. 

4. Stay of action. —If, upon the expiration of twenty-four hours 
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the deposit of $100 has been made in conformity with the said notice, 
the commissioner of immigration or inspector in charge shall suspend 
further proceedings until the submission of the evidence offered to 
show why the said fine should not be imposed, or until the lapse of 
the specified period of fourteen days thereafter. When the said evi¬ 
dence has been submitted it shall be forwarded, together with the cer¬ 
tificate of the examining surgeon, to the Commissioner-General of 
Immigration, for presentation to the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor, by the said commissioner or inspector in charge, who shall at 
the same time present his written views as to whether the said fine 
should be imposed. If no evidence is submitted prior to the expira¬ 
tion of the said fourteen days, then said commissioner or inspector in 
charge shall report the case without such evidence, for action by the 
Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 

5. Final proceedings .—Upon receipt of the decision of the Secretary 
of Commerce and Labor, a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the col¬ 
lector of customs, together with such data as may enable him to identify 
the special deposit made in that particular case. If the said decision 
imposes the line, the $100 deposited as security shall be accounted for 
by the said collector in the usual manner, as a fine; if the decision 
holds that the penalty has not been incurred, the collector of customs 
shall return to the depositor the amount deposited as security. 

V. H. Metcalf, 

Secretary. 




IMMIGRATION LAWS. 


Sections 3 and 5 of an act supplementary to the acts in relation to 
immigration, approved March 3, 1875, vol. 18, part 3, United States 
Statutes at Large, provide: 

“Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States oTwomen for 
the purpose of prostitution is hereby forbidden; and all contracts and 
agreements in relation thereto, made in advance or in pursuance of 
such illegal importation and purposes, are hereby declared void; and 
whoever shall knowingly and willfully import, or cause any importa¬ 
tion of, women into the United States for the purposes of prostitution, 
or shall knowingly or willfully hold, or attempt to hold, any women 
to such purposes, in pursuance of such illegal importation and con¬ 
tract or agreement, shall be deemed guilty of a felon}% and, on convic¬ 
tion thereof, shall be imprisoned not exceeding live years and pay a 
tine not exceeding five thousand dollars.” 

“Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful for aliens of the following classes 
to immigrate into the United States, namely, persons who are under¬ 
going a sentence for conviction in their own country of felonious 
crimes other than political or growing out of or the result of such 
political offenses, or whose sentence has been remitted on condition 
of their emigration, and women ‘imported for the purposes of pros¬ 
titution.' Every vessel arriving in the United States may be 
inspected under the direction of the collector of the port at which 
it arrives, if he shall have reason to believe that any such obnoxious 
persons are on board; and the officer making such inspection shall 
certify the result thereof to the master or other person in charge of 
such vessel, designating in such certificate the person or persons, 
if any there be, ascertained by him to be of either of the classes 
whose importation is hereby forbidden. When such inspection is 
required by the collector as aforesaid, it shall be unlawful, without 
his permission, for any alien to leave any such vessel arriving in 
the United States from a foreign country until the inspection shall 
have been had and the result certified as herein provided; and at no 
time thereafter shall any alien certified to by the inspecting officer as 
being of either of the classes whose immigation is forbidden by this 
section be allowed to land in the United States, except in obedience 
to a judicial process issued pursuant to law. If any person shall feel 
aggrieved by the certificate of such inspecting officer stating him or 
her to be within either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden 
by this section, and shall apply for release or other remedy to any 
proper court or judge, then it shall be the duty of the collector at said 
port of entry to detain said vessel until a hearing and determination of 
the matter are had, to the end that if the said inspector shall be found 
to be in accordance with this section, and sustained, the obnoxious per¬ 
son or persons shall be returned on board of said vessel, and shall not 
thereafter be permitted to land, unless the master, owner, or consignee 
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of the vessel shall give bond and security, to be approved by the court 
or judge hearing the cause, in the sum of live hundred dollars for each 
such person permitted to land, conditioned for the return of such 
person, within six months from the date thereof, to the country whence 
his or her emigration shall have taken place, or unless the vessel 
bringing such obnoxious person or persons shall he forfeited, in which 
event the proceeds of such forfeiture shall be paid over to the col¬ 
lector of the port of arrival, and applied by him, {is far as necessary, 
to the return of such person or persons to his or her own country 
within the said period of six months. And for {ill violations of this 
act, the vessel, by the acts, omissions, or connivance of the owners, 
master, or other custodian, or the consignees of which the same are 
committed, shall be liable to forfeiture, and may be proceeded against 
as in cases of frauds against the revenue laws, for which forfeiture is 
prescribed by existing law.” 

Approved, March 3, 1875. 


AN ACT to regulate immigration. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of _Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be 
levied, collected, and paid a duty of fifty cents for each and every 
passenger not a citizen of the United States who shall come by steam 
or sail vessel from a foreign port to any port within the United States. 
The said duty shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port to 
which such passenger shall come, or if there be no collector at such 
port, then to the collector of customs nearest thereto,' by the master, 
owner, agent, or consignee of every such vessel, within twenty-four 
hours after the entry thereof into such port. The money thus collected 
shall be paid into the United States Treasury and shall constitute a fund 
to be called the immigrant fund and shall be used, under the direction 
of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor], 
to defray the expense of regulating immigration under this act and for 
the care of immigrants arriving in the United States, for the relief of 
such as are in distress, and for the general purposes and expenses of 
carrying this act into effect. The duty imposed by this section shall 
be a'lien upon the vessels which shall bring sifch passengers into the 
United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against 
the owner or owners of such vessels, and the payment of such duty 
may be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy: Provided , That no 
greater sum shall be expended for the purposes hereinbefore men¬ 
tioned, at any port, than shall have been collected at such port. 

Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor] is hereby charged with the duty of executing the provi¬ 
sions of this act and with supervision over the business of immigration 
to the United States, and for* that purpose he shall have power to 
enter into contracts with such State commission, board, or officers as 
may be designated for that purpose by the governor of any State to 
take charge of the local affairs of immigration in the ports within said 
State, and to provide for the support and relief of such immigrants 
therein landing as may fall into distress or need public aid, under the 
rules and regulations to be prescribed by said Secretary; arid it shall 
be the duty of such State commission, board, or officers so designated 
to examine into the condition of passengers arriving at the ports within 



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such State in any ship or vessel, and for that purpose all or any of 
such commissioners, or officers or such other person or persons as they 
shall appoint, shall be authorized to go on board of and through any 
such ship or vessel; and if on such examination there shall be found 
among such passengers an}^ convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable 
to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge, 
they shall report the same in writing to the collector of such port, and 
such person shall not be permitted to land. 

Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor] shall establish such regulations and rules and issue from 
time to time such instructions, not inconsistent with law, as he shall 
deem best calculated to protect the United States and immigrants into 
the United States from fraud and loss and for carrying out the provi¬ 
sions of this act and the immigration laws of the United States; and 
he shall prescribe all forms of bonds, entries, and other papers to be 
used under and in the enforcement of the various provisions of this act. 

Sec. L That all foreign convicts, except those convicted of political 
offenses, upon arrival, shall be sent back to the nations to which they 
belong and from whence they came. The Secretary of the Treasury 
[Secretary of Commerce and Labor] may designate the State board of 
charities of any State in which such board shall exist by law, or any 
commission in any State, or any person or persons in any State whose 
duty it shall be to execute the provisions of this section without com¬ 
pensation. The Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor] shall prescribe regulations for the return of the aforesaid 
persons to the countries from whence they came and shall furnish 
instructions to the board, commission, or persons charged with the 
execution of the provisions of this section as to the mode of procedure 
in respect thereto, and may change such instructions from time to 
time. The expense of such return of the aforesaid persons not per¬ 
mitted to land shall be borne by the owners of the vessel in which 
they came. 

Sec. 5. That this act shall take effect immediately. 

Approved August 3, 1882. 


AN ACT to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage 
the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes, approved June 26, 
1884. 

Sec. 22. That until the provisions of section one, chapter three 
hundred and seventy-six, of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- 
two, shall be made applicable to passengers coming into the United 
States by land carriage, said provisions shall not apply to passengers 
coming by vessels employed exclusively in the trade between the ports 
of the United States and the ports of the Dominion of Canada or the 
ports of Mexico. 


ACT OF FEBRUARY 26, 1885. 

Original Act. 

AN ACT to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under 
contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the 
District of Columbia. 


Be 'd enacted by tlie Senate and House of Representatives of the 
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the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, company, 
partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the 
transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or 
migration of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the 
United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, under con¬ 
tract or agreement, parol or special, express or implied, made previ¬ 
ous to the importation or migration of such alien or aliens, foreigner 
or foreigners, to perform labor or service of any kind in the United 
States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia. 

Sec. 2. That all contracts or agreements, express or implied, parol 
or special, which may hereafter be made by and between any person, 
company, partnership, or corporation, and any foreigner or foreign¬ 
ers, alien or aliens, to perform labor or service or having reference 
to the performance of labor or service by any person in the United 
States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, previous to the 
migration or importation of the person or persons whose labor or 
service is contracted for into the United States, shall be utterly void 
and of no effect. 

Sec. 3. That for every violation of any of the provisions of section 
one of this act the person, partnership, company, or corporation 
violating the same, by knowingly assisting, encouraging or soliciting 
the migration or importation of any alien or aliens, foreigner or for¬ 
eigners, into the United States, its Territories, or the District of 
Columbia, to perform labor or service of any kind under contract 
or agreement, express or implied, parol or special, with such alien 
or aliens, foreigner or foreigners, previous to becoming residents or 
citizens of the United States, shall forfeit and pay for every such 
offense the sum of one thousand dollars, which may be sued for and 
recovered by the United States or by any person who shall first 
bring his action therefor, including any such alien or foreigner who 
may be a party to any such contract or agreement, as debts of like 
amount are now recovered in the circuit courts of the United States; 
the proceeds to be paid into the Treasury of the United States; and 
separate suits may be brought for each alien or foreigner being a party 
to such contract or agreement aforesaid. And it shall be the duty of 
the district attorney of the proper district to prosecute every such suit 
at the expense of the United States. 

Sec. 4. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring 
within the United States on any such vessel, and land, or permit to be 
landed, from any foreign port or place, any alien laborer, mechanic, 
or artisan who, previous to embarkation on such vessel, had entered 
into contract or agreement, parol or special, express or implied, to 
perform labor or service in the United States, shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine of not more that five hundred dollars for each and everv such alien 

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laborer, mechanic, or artisan so brought as aforesaid, and may also be 
imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months. 

Sec. 5. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent 
any citizen or subject of any foreign country temporarily residing in 
the United States, either in private or official capacity, from engaging, 
under contract or otherwise, persons not residents or citizens of the 
United States to act as private secretaries, servants, or domestics for 
such foreigners temporarity residing in the United States as aforesaid; 
nor shall this act be so construed as to prevent any person, or persons, 
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partnership, or corporation from engaging, under contract or agree¬ 
ment, skilled workmen in foreign countries to perform labor in the 
United States in or upon any new industry not at present established 
in the United States: Provided , That skilled labor for that purpose 
can not be otherwise obtained; nor shall the provisions of this act 
apply to professional actors, artists, lecturers, or singers, nor to 
persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants: Provided , 
That nothing ‘in this act shall be construed as prohibiting any indi 
vidual from assisting any member of his family or any relative, or 
personal friend, to migrate from any foreign country to the United 
States, for the purpose of settlement here. 

Sec. 6 . That all laws or parts of laws conflicting herewith be, and 
the same are hereby, repealed. 

Approved February 26, 1885 (23 Stat L., 332). 


Amendatory Act. 

AN ACT to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under 
contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, the Territories, and 
the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled ,. That an act to 
prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens 
under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, 
its Territories, and the District of Columbia, approved February 
twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and to provide for 
the enforcement thereof, be amended by adding the following: 

“Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Com¬ 
merce and Labor] is hereby charged with the duty of executing the 
provisions of this act, and for that purpose he shall have power to 
enter into contracts with such State commission, board, or officers as 
may be designated for that purpose by the governor of any State to 
take charge of the local affairs of immigration in the ports within said 
State, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by said Secre¬ 
tary; and it shall be the duty of such State commission, board, or 
officers so designated to examine into the condition of passengers 
arriving at the ports within such State in any ship or vessel, and for 
that purpose all or any of such commissioners or officers or such other 
person or persons as they shall appoint shall be authorized to go on 
board of and through any such ship or vessel; and if in such examina¬ 
tion there shall be found among such passengers any person included in 
the prohibition in this act, they shall report the same in writing to the 
collector of such port, and such person shall not be permitted to land. 

“Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Com¬ 
merce and Labor] shall establish such regulations and rules, and issue 
from time to time such instructions not inconsistent with law, as he 
shall deem best calculated for carrying out the provisions of this act; 
and he shall prescribe all forms of bonds, entries, and other papers to be 
used under and in the enforcement of the various provisions of this act. 

“Sec. 8. That all persons included in the prohibition in this act, 
upon arrival, shall be sent back to the nations to which they belong 
and from whence they came. The Secretary of the Treasury [Secre- 



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tary of Commerce and Labor] may designate the State board of 
charities of any State in which such board shall exist by law, or any 
commission in any State, or any person or persons in any State, whose 
duty it shall be to execute the provisions of this section and shall be 
entitled to reasonable compensation therefor to be fixed by regulation 
pr escribed by the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor]. The Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor] shall prescribe regulations for the return of the aforesaid 
persons to the countries from whence they came, and shall furnish 
instructions to the board, commission, or persons charged with the 
execution of the provisions of this section as to the time of procedure 
in respect thereto, and may change such instructions from time to 
time. The expense of such return of the aforesaid persons not per¬ 
mitted to land shall be borne by the owners of the vessels in which 
they came. And any vessel refusing to pay such expenses shall not 
thereafter be permitted to land at or clear from any port of the United 
States. And such expenses shall be a lien on said vessel. That the 
necessary expense in the execution of this act for the present fiscal 
year shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated. 

“Sec. 9 That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are 
hereby repealed. 

“Sec. 10. That this act shall take effect at the expiration of thirty 
days after its passage.” 

Approved, February 23, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 414). 


Amendment to the Alien Contract-Labor Law Contained in 
the Deficiency Bill Approved October 19, 1888 (25 Stat. 
L., 565). 

That the act approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and 
eighty-seven, entitled “An act to amend an act to prohibit the impor¬ 
tation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or 
agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and 
the District of Columbia,” be, and the same is hereby, so amended as 
to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor], in case that he shall be satisfied that an immigrant has 
been allowed to land contrary to the prohibition of that law, to cause 
such immigrant, within the period of one year after landing or entry, 
to be taken into custody and returned to the country from whence he 
came, at the expense of the owner of the importing vessel; or, if he 
entered from an adjoining country, at the expense of the person pre¬ 
viously contracting for the services. 


ACT OF MARCH 3, 1891. 

AN ACT in amendment to the various acts relative to immigration and the impor¬ 
tation of aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled , That the following 
classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United 
States, in accordance with the existing acts regulating immigration, 
other than those concerning Chinese laborers: All idiots, insane per- 




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sons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons 
suffering from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease, persons 
who have been convicted of a felony or other infamous crime or mis¬ 
demeanor involving moral turpitude, polygamists, and also any person 
whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another or who 
is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily 
shown on special inquiry that such person does not belong to one of the 
foregoing excluded classes, or to the class of contract laborers excluded 
hy the act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, 
but this section shall not be held to exclude persons living in the United 
States from sending for a relative or a friend who is not of the excluded 
classes under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasurer [Sec- 
retary of Commerce and Labor] may prescribe: Provided\ That nothing- 
in this act shall be construed to apply to or exclude persons convicted 
of a political offense, notwithstanding said political offense may be 
designated as a “felony, crime, infamous crime, or misdemeanor, 
involving moral turpitude” by the laws of the land whence he came 
or by the court convicting. 

Sec. 2. That no suit or proceeding for violations of said act of Feb¬ 
ruary twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eight 3 r -five, prohibiting the 
importation and migration of foreigners under contract or agreement 
to perform labor shall be settled, compromised, or discontinued with¬ 
out the consent of the court entered of record with reasons therefor. 

Sec. 3. That it shall be deemed a violation of said act of February 
twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to assist or encourage 
the importation or migration of any alien by promise of employment 
through advertisements printed and published in any foreign country; 
and any alien coming to this country in consequence of such an adver¬ 
tisement shall be treated as coming under a contract as contemplated 
by such act; and the penalties by said act imposed shall be applicable 
in such a case: Provided , This section shall not apply to States and 
immigration bureaus of States advertising the inducements they offer 
for immigration to such States. 

Sec. 4. That no steamship or transportation company or owners of 
vessels shall directly or through agents, either by writing, printing, or 
oral representations, solicit, invite, or encourage the immigration of 
any alien into the United States except by ordinary commercial letters, 
circulars, advertisements, or oral representations, stating the sailings 
of their vessels and the terms and facilities of transportation therein; 
and for a violation of this provision any such steamship or transporta¬ 
tion company, and any such owners of vessels, and the agents by them 
employed, shall be subjected to the penalties imposed by the third sec¬ 
tion of said act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty- 
five, for violations of the provisions of the first section of said act. 

Sec. 5. That section five of said act of February twent}^-sixth, 
eighteen hundred and eighty-five, shall be, and hereby is, amended by 
adding to the second proviso in said section the words “nor to minis¬ 
ters of any religious denomination, nor persons belonging to any recog¬ 
nized profession, nor professors for colleges and seminaries,” and by 
excluding from the second proviso of said section the words “or any 
relative or personal friend.” 

Sec. 6 . That any person who shall bring into or land in the United 
States by vessel or otherwise, or who shall aid to bring into or land in the 
United States by vessel or otherwise, any alien not lawfully entitled to 
enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 


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shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding- one thousand 
dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by 
both such fine and imprisonment. 

Sec. 7. That the office of superintendent of immigration is hereby 
created and established, and the President, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate, is authorized and directed to appoint such officer, 
whose salary shall be four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. 
The superintendent of immigration shall be an officer in the Treasury 
Department, under the control and supervision of the Secretary of the 
Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor], to whom he shall make 
annual reports in writing of the transactions of his office, together with 
such special reports, in writing, as the Secretary of the Treasury 
[Secretary of Commerce and Labor] shall require. The Secretary 
shall provide the superintendent with a suitably furnished office in the 
city of Washington, and with such books of record and facilities for 
the discharge of the duties of his office as may be necessaiy. He shall 
have a chief clerk at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and 
two first-class clerks. 

Sec. 8. That upon the arrival by water at any place within the 
United States of any alien immigrants it shall be the duty of the com¬ 
manding officer and the agents of the steam or sailing vessel by which 
they came to report the name, nationality, last residence, and desti¬ 
nation of every such alien, before any of them are landed, to the 
proper inspection officers, who shall thereupon go or send competent 
assistants on board such vessel and there inspect all such aliens, or 
the inspection officers may order a temporary removal of such aliens 
for examination at a designated time and place, and then and there 
detain them until a thorough inspection is made. But such a removal 
shall not be considered a landing during the pendency of such exami¬ 
nation. The medical examination shall be made by surgeons of the 
Marine-Hospital Service. In cases where the services of a marine- 
hospital surgeon can not be obtained without causing unreasonable 
delay, the inspector may cause an alien to be examined by a civil 
surgeon and the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor] shall fix the compensation for such examination. The 
inspection officers and their assistants shall have power to administer 
oaths, and to take and consider testimony touching the right of such 
aliens to enter the United States, all of which shall be entered of 
record. During such inspection after temporary removal the super¬ 
intendent shall cause such aliens to be properly housed, fed, and cared 
for, and also, in his discretion, such as are delayed in proceeding to 
their destination after inspection. All decisions made by the inspec¬ 
tion officers or their assistants touching the right of any alien to land, 
when adverse to such right, shall be final unless appeal be taken to 
the superintendent of immigration, whose action shall be subject to 
review by the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor]. * It shall be the duty of the aforesaid officers and agents of 
such vessel to adopt due precautions to prevent the landing of any 
alien immigrant at any place or time other than that designated by the 
inspection officers, and any such officer or agent or person in charge 
of such vessel who shall either knowingly or negligently land or per¬ 
mit to land any alien immigrant at any place or time other than that 
designated by the inspection officers, shall be deemed guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor and punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, 
or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. 


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That the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor] may prescribe rules for inspection along the borders of Canada, 
British Columbia, and Mexico, so as not to obstruct or unnecessarily 
delay, impede, or annoy passengers in ordinary travel between said 
countries: Provided , That not exceeding one inspector shall be 
appointed for each customs district, and whose salary shall not exceed 
twelve hundred dollars per year. 

All duties imposed and powers conferred by the second section of 
the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, upon State 
commissions, boards, or officers acting under contract with the Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor] shall be per¬ 
formed and exercised, as occasion may arise, by the inspection officers 
of the United States. 

Sec. 9. That for the preservation of the peace and in order that 
arrests may be made for crimes under the laws of the States where 
the various United States immigrant stations are located, the officials 
in charge of such stations as occasion may require shall admit therein 
the proper State and municipal officers charged with the enforcement 
of such laws, and for the purposes of this section the jurisdiction of 
such officers and of the local courts shall extend over such stations. 

Sec. 10. That all aliens who may unlawfully come into the Lmited 
States shall, if practicable, be immediately sent back on the vessel b} r 
which they were brought in. The cost of their maintenance while on 
land, as well as the expense of the return of such aliens, shall be borne 
by the owner or owners of the vessel on which such aliens came; and 
if any master, agent, consignee, or owner of such vessel shall refuse to 
receive back on board the vessel such aliens, or shall neglect to detain 
them thereon, or shall refuse or neglect to return them to the port 
from which they came, or to pay the cost of their maintenance while 
on land, such master, agent, consignee, or owner shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a line not less than 
three hundred dollars for each and every offense; and aiw such vessel 
shall not have clearance from any port of the United States while any 
such tine is unpaid. 

Sec. 11. That anv alien who shall come into the United States in 
violation of law may be returned as by law provided, at any time 
within one year thereafter, at the expense of the person or persons, 
vessel, transportation company, or corporation bringing such alien 
into the United States, and if that can not be done, then at the 
expense of the United States, and any alien who becomes a public 
charge within one year after his arrival in the United States from 
causes existing prior to his landing therein shall be deemed to have 
come in violation of law and shall be returned as aforesaid. 

Sec. 12. That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to 
affect any prosecution or other proceeding, criminal or civil, begun 
under any existing act or any acts hereby amended, but such prose¬ 
cution or other proceedings, criminal or civil, shall proceed as if this 
act had not been passed. 

Sec. 13. That the circuit and district courts of the United States are 
hereby invested with full and concurrent jurisdiction of all causes, 
civil and criminal, arising under any of the provisions of this act^ 
and this act shall go into effect on the ffrst day of April, eighteen hun¬ 
dred and ninety-one. 

Approved March 3, 1891. 


IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 


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AN ACT granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties 

upon the Marine-Hospital Service. 


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Sec. 7. That whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the 
President that by reason of the existence of cholera, or other infec¬ 
tious or contagious diseases, in a foreign country there is serious dan¬ 
ger of the introduction of the same into the United States, and that 
notwithstanding the quarantine defense this danger is so increased by 
the introduction of persons or property from such country that a sus¬ 
pension of tlie right to introduce the same is demanded, in the interest 
of the public health, the President shall have power to prohibit, in 
whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such 
countries or places as he shall designate and for such period of time 
as he may deem necessary. 


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* 


Act approved February 15, 1893 (27 Stat. L., p. 149). 


ACT OF MARCH 3, 1893. 

AN ACT to facilitate the enforcement of the immigration and contract-labor laws 

of the United States. 

Be it enacted • by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled , That, in addition to 
conforming to all present requirements of law, upon the arrival of 
any alien immigrants by water at any port within the United States, 
it shall be the duty of the master or commanding officer of the steamer 
or sailing vessel having said immigrants on hoard to deliver to the 
proper inspector of immigration at the port lists or manifests made 
at the time and place of embarkation of such alien immigrants on 
board such steamer or vessel, which shall, in answer to questions at 
the top of said lists, state as to each immigrant the full name, age, 
and sex, whether married or single; the calling or occupation; whether 
aide to read or write; the nationality; the last residence; the seaport 
for landing in the United States; the final destination, if any, beyond 
the seaport of landing; whether having a ticket through to such final 
destination; whether the immigrant has paid his own passage, or 
whether it has been paid by other persons or by any corporation, 
society, municipality, or government; whether in possession of money, 
and if so, whether upward of thirty dollars and how much if thirty 
dollars or less; whether going to join a relative, and if so, what rela¬ 
tive and his name and address; whether ever before in the United 
States, and if so, when and where; whether ever in prison or alms¬ 
house or supported by charity; whether a polygamist; whether under 
contract, express or implied, to perform labor in the United States; 
and what is the immigrant’s condition of health mentally and phys¬ 
ically, and whether deformed or crippled, and if so, from what cause. 

Sec. 2. That the immigrants shall be listed in convenient groups 



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and no one list or manifest shall contain more than thirty names. 
To each immigrant or head of a family shall be given a ticket on 
which shall be written his name, a number or letter designating the 
list, and his number on the list, for convenience of identification on 
arrival. Each list or manifest shall be verified by the signature and 
the oath or affirmation of the master or commanding officer or of the 
officer first or second below him in command, taken before the United 
States consul or consular agent at the port of departure, before the 
sailing of said vessel, to the effect that he has made a personal exami¬ 
nation of each and all of the passengers named therein, and that he 
has caused the surgeon of said vessel sailing therewith to make a 
physical examination of each of said passengers, and that from his 
personal inspection and the report of said surgeon he believes that no 
one of said passengers is an idiot or insane person, or a pauper or 
likely to become a public charge, or suffering from a loathsome or 
dangerous contagious disease, or a person who has been convicted of 
a felony or other infamous crime or misdemeanor involving moral 
turpitude, or a polygamist, or under a contract or agreement, express 
or implied, to perform labor in the United States, and that also, 
according to the best of his knowledge and belief, the information in 
said list or manifest concerning each of said passengers named therein 
is correct and true. 

Sec. 3. That the surgeon of said vessel sailing therewith shall also 
sign each of said lists or manifests before the departure of said vessel, 
and make oath or affirmation in like manner before said consul or con¬ 
sular agent, stating his professional experience and qualifications as a 
physician and surgeon, and that he has made a personal examination 
of each of the passengers named therein and that said list or manifest, 
according to the best of his knowledge and belief, is full, correct, and 
true in all particulars relative to the mental and physical condition of 
said passengers. If no surgeon sails with an}" vessel bringing alien 
immigrants, the mental and physical examinations and the verifica¬ 
tions of the lists or manifests may be made by some competent sur¬ 
geon employed by the owners of the vessel. 

Sec. 4. that in the case of the failure of said master or command¬ 
ing officer of said vessel to deliver to the said inspector of immigration 
lists or manifests, verified as aforesaid, containing the information 
above required as to all alien immigrants on board, there shall be paid 
to the collector of customs at the port of arrival the sum of ten dollars 
for each immigrant qualified to enter the United States concerning 
whom the above information is not contained in any list as aforesaid, 
or said immigrants shall not be permitted so to enter the United States, 
but shall be returned like other excluded persons. 

Sec. 5. I hat it shall be the duty of every inspector of arriving alien 
immigrants to detain fora special inquiry, under section one of the 
immigration act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 
every person who may not appear to him to be clearly and beyond 
doubt entitled to admission, and all special inquiries shall be conducted 
by not less than four officials acting as inspectors, to be designated in 
writing by the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor], or the superintendent of immigration, for conducting special 
inquiries; and no immigrant shall be admitted on special inquiry 
except after a favorable decision made by at least three of said inspect- 


IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 


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ors; and any decision to admit shall be subject to appeal by any dis¬ 
senting inspector to the superintendent of immigration, whose action 
hall be subject to review by the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary 
of Commerce and .Labor], as provided in section eight of said immi¬ 
gration act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. 

Sec. 6 . That section five of the act of March third, eighteen hun¬ 
dred and ninety-one, “in amendment of the various acts relative to 
immigration and the importation of aliens under contract or agreement 
to perform labor,” is hereby amended by strikii/g out the words “sec¬ 
ond proviso” where they first occur in said section and inserting the 
words “ first proviso ” in their place; and section eight of said act is 
hereby so amended that the medical examinations of arriving immi¬ 
grants to be made by surgeons of the Marine-Hospital Service may be 
made by any regular medical officers of such Marine-Hospital Service 
detailed therefor by the Secretary of the Treasury; and civil surgeons 
shall only be employed temporarily from time to time for specific 
emergencies. 

Sec. 7. That no bond or guaranty, written or oral, that an alien 
immigrant shall not become a public charge shall be received from 
any person, company, corporation, charitable or benevolent society 
or association, unless authority to receive the same shall in each 
special case be given by the superintendent of immigration, with the 
written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor], 

Sec. 8. That all steamship or transportation companies, and other 
owners of vessels, regularly engaged in transporting alien immigrants 
to the United States, shall twice a year file a certificate with the Sec¬ 
retary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor] that they 
have furnished to he kept conspicuously exposed to view in the office 
of each of their agents in foreign countries authorized to sell emigrant 
tickets, a copy of the law of March third, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-one, and of all subsequent laws of this country relative to 
immigration, printed in large letters, in the language of the country 
where the copy of the law is to be exposed to view, and that they have 
instructed their agents to call the attention thereto of persons con¬ 
templating emigration before selling tickets to them; and in case of 
the failure for sixty days of any such company or any such owners to 
file such a certificate, or in case they file a false certificate, they shall 
pay a fine of not exceeding live hundred dollars, to be recovered in 
the proper United States court, and said fine shall also be a lien upon 
any vessel of said company or owners found within the United States. 

Sec. 9 . That after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-three, all exclusive privileges of exchanging money, transport¬ 
ing passengers or baggage, or keeping eating houses, and all other 
like privileges in connection with the Ellis Island immigrant station, 
shall be disposed of after public competition, subject to such condi¬ 
tions and limitations as the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor] may prescribe. 

Sec. 10. That this act shall not apply to Chinese persons; and shall 
take effect as to vessels departing from foreign ports for ports within 
the United States after sixty days from the passage of this act. 

Approved, March 8, 1893. 


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AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for 
the fiscal year ending .Tune thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for 
other purposes. 

Be it enacted , etc ., 


-X- 


-* 


* 


X- 


X- 


* 


X- 


In every case where an alien is excluded from admission into the 
United States under any law or treaty now existing or hereafter made, 
the decision of the appropriate immigration or customs officers, if 
adverse to the admission of such alien, shall be final, unless reversed 
on appeal to the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor I. 


x- 


“The head money from alien passengers on and after the first day 
of October next, collected under the act of August third, eighteen 
hundred and eighty-two, to regulate immigration, shall be one dollar 
in lieu of the fifty cents as provided in said act. That such head 
money and all other receipts which shall be collected on and after July 
first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in connection with immigra¬ 
tion shall be covered into the Treasury. * * * 

“The commissioners of immigration at the several ports shall be 
appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, to hold their offices for the term of four years, unless sooner 
removed, and until their successors are appointed; and nominations 
for such offices shall be made to the Senate by the President as soon as 
practicable after the passage of this act.” 

Approved, August 18, 1894. 


AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses 
of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30,1890, and for other purposes, 
approved March 2, 1895, under the head “Bureau of Immigration,” provides: 

That the Superintendent of Immigration shall hereafter be desig¬ 
nated as Commissioner-General of Immigration, and, in addition to 
his other duties, shall have charge, under the Secretary of the Treas¬ 
ury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor], of the administration of the 
alien contract-labor laws, etc. 


ACT OF JUNE 6, 1900. 

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for 
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other 
purposes. 


He it exacted, etc.. 


* 


x- 


* 


and hereafter the Commissioner-General of Immigration, 
in addition to his other duties, shall have charge of the administration 
of the Chinese-exclusion law and of the various acts regulating immi¬ 
gration into the United States, its Territories, and the District of 
Columbia, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of the 
Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor]. 

Approved, June 0, 1900. 






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ACT OF APRIL 29, 1902. 

AN ACT to prohibit the coming into and to regulate the residence within the United 
States, its Territories, and all territory under its jurisdiction, and the District of 
Columbia, ol Chinese and persons of Chinese descent. 


Be it enacted , etc ., 


-X- 


-X- 


Sec. 3. That nothing in the provisions of this Act or any other Act 
shall he construed to prevent, hinder, or restrict any foreign exhibitor, 
representative, or citizen of any foreign nation, or the holder, who is 
a citizen of any foreign nation, of any concession or privilege from 
any fair or exposition authorized by Act of Congress from bringing 
into the United States, under contract, such mechanics, artisans, agents, 
or other employees, natives of their respective foreign countries, as 
they or any of them may deem necessary for the purpose of making 
preparation for installing or conducting their exhibits or of preparing 
for installing or conducting any business authorized or permitted under 
or by virtue of or pertaining to any concession or privilege which may 
have been or may be granted by any said fair or exposition in connection 
with such exposition, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary 
of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor] may prescribe, 
both as to the admission and return of such person or persons. 




* 


Approved, April 29, 1902 (32 Stat., part 1, p. 176). 


ACT OF MARCH 3, 1903. 

AN ACT to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, , That there shall be levied, 
collected, and paid a duty of two dollars for each and every passenger 
not a citizen of the United States, or of the Dominion of Canada, a the 
Republic of Cuba, or of the Republic of Mexico, who shall come by 
steam, sail, or other vessel from any foreign port to any port within the 
United States, or by any railway or any other mode of transportation, 
from foreign contiguous territory to the United States. The said duty 
shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port or customs district 
to which said alien passenger shall come, or, if there be no collector at 
such port or district, then to the collector nearest thereto, by the mas¬ 
ter, agent, owner, or consignee of every such vessel or transportation 
line. The money thus collected shall be paid into the United States 
Treasury and shall constitute a permanent appropriation to be called 
the “immigrant fund,” to be used under the direction of the Secretary 
of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor] to defray the 
expense of regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States 
under this Act, including the cost of reports of decisions of the Federal 
courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner-General 
of Immigration, and the salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, 
and employees appointed for the purpose of enforcing the provisions 
of this Act. The duty imposed by this section shall be a lien upon 
the vessel which shall bring such aliens to ports of the United States, 
and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or 
owners of such vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced 


« See Act approved March 22, 1904. 






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IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 


by any legal or equitable remedy; the head tax herein provided for 
shall not be levied upon aliens in transit through the United States 
nor upon aliens who have once been admitted into the United States and 
have paid the head tax who later shall go in transit from one part of 
the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory: 
Provided , That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, under the 
direction or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Sec- 
retary of Commerce and Labor], by agreement with transportation 
lines, as provided in section thirty-two of this Act, may arrange in 
some other manner for the payment of the duty imposed by this section 
upon aliens seeking admission overland, either as to all or as to any 
such aliens. 

Sec. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from 
admission into the United States: All idiots, insane persons, epileptics, 
and persons who have been insane within live years previous; persons 
who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; 
paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beg¬ 
gars; persons afflicted with a loathsome or with a dangerous contagious 
disease; persons who have be£n convicted of a felony or other crime 
or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, anarchists, or 
persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence 
of the Government of the United States or of all government or of all 


forms of law, or the assassination of public officials; prostitutes, and 
persons who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women 
for the purpose of prostitution; those who have been, within one 
year from the date of the application for admission to the United 
States, deported as being under offers, solicitations, promises or agree¬ 
ments to perform labor or service of some kind therein; and also any 
person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, 
or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and sat- 
isfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the fore¬ 
going excluded classes; but this section shall not he held to prevent 
persons living in the United States from sending for a relative or 
friend who is not of the foregoing excluded classes: Provided , That 
nothing in this Act shall exclude persons convicted of an offense purely 
political, not involving moral turpitude: And provided further, That 
skilled labor may be imported, if labor of like kind unemployed can 
not be found in this country: And provided further. That the pro¬ 
visions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to 


exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any 
religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons 
belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed 
strictly as personal or domestic servants. 

Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States of any woman 
or girl for the purposes of prostitution is hereby forbidden; and who¬ 
ever shall import or attempt to import any woman or girl into the 
United States for the purposes of prostitution, or shall hold or attempt 
to hold, any woman or girl for such purposes in pursuance of such 
illegal importation shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on convic¬ 
tion thereof, shall be imprisoned not less than one nor more than five 
years and pay a line not exceeding five thousand dollars. 

Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partner¬ 
ship, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the trans¬ 
portation or iu any way to assist or encourage the importation or 


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migration of any alien into the United States, in pursuance of any offer, 
solicitation, promise, or agreement, parole or special, expressed or 
implied, made previous to the importation of such alien to perform 
labor or service of any kind, skilled or unskilled, in the United States. 

Sec. 5. That for every violation of any of the provisions of section 
four of this Act the person, partnership, company, or corporation vio¬ 
lating the same, by knowingly assisting, encouraging, or soliciting the 
migration or importation of any alien to the United States to perform 
labor or service of any kind by reason of any offer, solicitation, promise, 
or agreement, express or implied, parole or special, to or with such 
alien shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the sum of one thou¬ 
sand dollars, which may be sued for and recovered by the United 
States, or by any person who shall first bring his action therefor in his 
own name and for his own benefit, including any such alien thus prom¬ 
ised labor or service of any kind as aforesaid, as debts of like amount 
are now recovered in the courts of the United States; and separate 
suits may be brought for each alien thus promised labor or service of 
any kind as aforesaid. And it shall be the duty of the district attorney 
of the proper district to prosecute every such suit when brought by 
the United States. 

Sec. 6 . That it shall be unlawful and be deemed a violation of sec¬ 
tion four of this Act to assist or encourage the importation or migration 
of any alien by a promise of employment through advertisements 
printed and published in any foreign country; and any alien coming 
to this country in consequence of such an advertisement shall be treated 
as coming under a promise or agreement as contemplated in section 
two of this Act, and the penalties imposed by section five of this Act 
shall be applicable to such a case: Provided , That this section shall 
not apply to States or Territories, the District of Columbia, or places 
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States advertising the induce¬ 
ments they offer for immigration thereto, respectively. 

Sec. 7. That no transportation company or owner or owners of ves¬ 
sels or others engaged in transporting aliens into the United States, 
shall, directly or through agents, either by writing, printing, or oral 
representations, solicit, invite, or encourage the immigration of any 
aliens into the United States except by ordinary commercial letters, 
circulars, advertisements, or oral representations, stating the sailings 
of their vessels and terms and facilities of transportation therein; and 
for a violation of this provision any such transportation company and 
any such owner or owners of vessels, and all others engaged in trans¬ 
porting aliens to the United States, and the agents by them employed, 
shall be subjected to the penalties imposed by section five of this Act. 

Sec. 8. That any person, including the master, agent, owner, or 
consignee of any vessel, who shall bring into or land in the United 
States, by vessel or otherwise, or who shall attempt, by himself or 
through another, to bring into or land in the United States, by vessel 
or otherwise, any alien not duly admitted by an immigrant inspector, 
or not lawfully entitled to enter the United States, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by a 
fine not exceeding one thousand dollars for each and every alien so 
landed or attempted to be landed, or by imprisonment for a term not 
less than three months nor more than two years, or by both such fine 
and imprisonment. 

Sec. 9 . That it shall be unlawful for any person, including any trails' 


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portation company other than railway linos entering the United States 
from foreign contiguous territory, or the owner, master, agent, or con- 
signee of any vessel to bring to the United States any alien afflicted 
with a loathsome or with a dangerous contagious disease; and if it 
shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury [Sec¬ 
retary of Commerce and Labor] that any alien so brought to the United 
States was afflicted with such a disease at the time of foreign embarka¬ 
tion, and that the existence of such disease might have been detected 
by means of a competent medical examination at such time, such per¬ 
son or transportation company or the master, agent, owner, or con¬ 
signee of any such vessel shall pay to the collector of customs of the 
customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of one 
hundred dollars for each and every violation of the provisions of this 
section; and no vessel shall be granted clearance papers while any such 
line imposed upon it remains unpaid, nor shall such tine be remitted. 

Sec. 10. That the decision of the board of special inquiry, herein¬ 
after provided for, based upon the certificate of the examining med¬ 
ical officer, shall be final as to the rejection of aliens afflicted with a 
loathsome or with a dangerous contagious disease, or with any mental 
or physical disability which would bring such aliens within any of the 
classes excluded from admission to the United States under section 
two of this Act. 

Sec. 11. That upon the certificate of a medical officer of the United 
States Marine-Hospital Service to the effect that a rejected alien is 
helpless from sickness, physical disability, or infancy, if such alien is 
accompanied by another alien whose protection or guardianship is 
required by such rejected alien, the master, agent, owner, or consignee 
of the vessel in which such alien and accompanying alien are brought 
shall be required to return said alien and accompanying alien in the 
same manner as vessels are required to return other rejected aliens. 

Sec. 12. That upon the arrival of any alien by water at any port 
within the United States it shall be the duty of the master or com¬ 
manding officer of the steamer, sailing or other vessel, having said 
alien on board to deliver to the immigration officers at the port of 
arrival lists or manifests made at the time and place of embarkation 
of such alien on board such steamer or vessel, which shall, in answer 
to questions at the top of said lists, state as to each alien the full name, 
age, and sex; whether married or single; the calling or occupation; 
whether able to read or write; the nationality; the race; the last resi¬ 
dence; the seaport for landing in the United States; the final destina¬ 
tion, if any, beyond the port of landing; whether having a ticket 
through to such final destination; whether the alien has paid his own 
passage, or whether it has been paid by any other person or by any 
corporation, society, municipality, or government, and if so. by whom; 
whether in possession of fifty dollars, and if less, how much; whether 
going to join a relative or friend, and if so, what relative or friend 
and his name and complete address; whether ever before in the United 
States, and if so, when and where; whether ever in prison or almshouse 
or an institution or hospital for the care and treatment of the insane 
or supported by charity; whether a polygamist; whether an anarchist; 
whether coming by reason of any offer, solicitation, promise or agree¬ 
ment, expressed or implied, to perform labor in the United States, and 
what is the alien’s condition of health mental and physical, and whether 
deformed or crippled, and if so, for how long and from what cause. 


IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 


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Sec. 13. That all aliens arriving by water at the ports of the United 
States shall be listed in convenient groups, and no one list or manifest 
shall contain more than thirty names. To each alien or head of a 
family shall be given a ticket on which shall be written his name, a 
number or letter designating the list in which his name, and so forth, 
is contained, and his number on said list, for convenience of identifi¬ 
cation on arrival. Each list or manifest shall be verified by the signa¬ 
ture and the oath or affirmation of the master or commanding officer 
or the first or second below him in command, taken before an immi¬ 
gration officer at the port of arrival, to the effect that he has caused 
the surgeon of said vessel sailing therewith to make a physical and 
oral examination of each of said aliens, and that from the report of 
said surgeon and from his own investigation he believes that no one of 
said aliens is an idiot, or insane person, or a pauper, or is likely to 
become a public charge, or is suffering from a loathsome or a danger¬ 
ous contagious disease, or is a person who has been convicted of a 
felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, or 
a polygamist, or an anarchist, or under promise or agreement, express 
or implied, to perform labor in the United States, or a prostitute,- and 
that also, according to the best of his knowledge and belief, the 
information in said lists or manifests concerning each of said aliens 
named therein is correct and true in every respect. 

Sec. 14. That the surgeon of said vessel sailing therewith shall also 
sign each of said lists or manifests and make oath or affirmation in like 
manner before an immigration officer at the port of arrival, stating 
his professional experience and qualifications as a physician and sur¬ 
geon, and that he has made a personal examination of each of the said 
aliens named therein, and that the said list or manifest, according to 
the best of his knowledge and belief, is full, correct, and true in all 
particulars relative to the mental and physical condition of said aliens. 
If no surgeon sails with any vessel bringing aliens the mental and 
physical examinations and the verifications of the lists or manifests 
shall be made by some competent surgeon employed by the .owners of 
the said vessel. 

Sec. 15. That in the case of the failure of the master or command¬ 
ing officer of any vessel to deliver to the said immigration officers lists 
or manifests of all aliens on board thereof as required in sections 
twelve, thirteen, and fourteenpf this Act, he shall pay to the collector 
of customs at the port of arrival the sum of ten dollars for each alien 
concerning whom the above information is not contained in any list as 
aforesaid. 

Sec. 16. That upon the receipt by the immigration officers at any 
port of arrival of the lists or manifests of aliens provided for in sec¬ 
tions twelve, thirteen, and fourteen of this Act it shall be the duty of 
said officers to go or send competent assistants to the vessels to which 
said lists or manifests refer and there inspect all such aliens, or said 
immigration officers may order a temporary removal of such aliens for 
examination at a designated time and place, but such temporary re¬ 
moval shall not be considered a landing, nor shall it relieve the trans¬ 
portation lines, masters, agents, owners, or consignees of the vessel 
upon which such aliens are brought to any port of the United btates 
from any of the obligations which, in case such aliens remain on board, 
would, under the provisions of this Act, bind the said transportation 
lines, masters, agents, owners, or consignees: Provided , That where 


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a suitable building is used for the detention and examination of aliens 
the immigration officials shall there take charge of such aliens, and the 
transportation companies, masters, agents, owners, and consignees 
of the vessels bringing such aliens shall be relieved of the responsi¬ 
bility for their detention thereafter until the return of such aliens to 
their care. 

Sec. 17. That the physical and mental examination of all arriving 
aliens shall be made by medical officers of the United States Marine- 
Hospital Service, who shall have had at least two years’ experience in 
the practice of their profession since receiving the degree of doctor 
of medicine and who shall certify for the information of the immigra¬ 
tion officers and the boards of special inquiry hereinafter provided for, 
any and all physical and mental defects or diseases observed by said 
medical officers in any such alien, or, should medical officers of the 
United States Marine-Hospital Service be not available, civil surgeons 
of not less than four years’ professional experience may be employed in 
such emergencies for the said service, upon such terms as may be pre¬ 
scribed b} T the Commissioner-General of Immigration, under the direc¬ 
tion or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary 
of Commerce and Labor]. The United States Public Health and 
Marine-Hospital Service shall be reimbursed by the Immigration 
Service for all expenditures incurred in carrying out the medical 
inspection of aliens under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sec. 18. That it shall be the duty of the owners, officers and agents 
of any vessel bringing an alien to the United States to adopt due pre¬ 
cautions to prevent the landing of any such alien from such vessel at 
any time or place other than that designated by the immigration officers, 
and any such owner, officer, agent, or person in charge of such vessel 
who shall land or permit to land any alien at any time or place other 
than that designated by the immigration officers, shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be punished by a tine for 
each alien so permitted to land of not less than one hundred nor more 
than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceed¬ 
ing one year, or by both such tine and imprisonment, and every such 
alien so landed shall be deemed to be unlawfully in the United States 
and shall be deported, as provided by law. 

Sec. 19. That all aliens brought into this country in violation of law 
shall, if practicable, be immediately sent back to the countries whence 
they respectively came on the vessels bringing them. The cost of 
their maintenance while on land, as well as the expense of the return 
of such aliens, shall be borne by the owner or owners of the vessels on 
which they respectively came; and if any master, person in charge, 
agent, owner, or consignee of any such vessels shall refuse to receive 
back on board thereof, or of any other vessel owned by the same 
interest, such aliens, or shall neglect to detain them thereon, or shall 
refusq or neglect to return them to the foreign port from which 
they came, or to pay the cost of their maintenance while on land, such 
master, person in charge, agent, owner, or consignee shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction, be punished by a 
tine not less than three hundred dollars for each and every such offense; 
and no vessel shall have clearance from any port of the United 
States while any such fine is unpaid: Provided , That the Commissioner- 
General of Immigration, under the direction or with the approval of 
the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor], 
may suspend, upon conditions to be prescribed by the Commissioner- 


IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 


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General, the deportation of any alien found to have come under prom¬ 
ise or agreement of labor or service of any kind if, in his judgment, 
the testimony of such alien is necessary on behalf of the United States 
Government in the prosecution of offenders against the provisions of 
sections four and live of this Act: Provided , That the cost of mainte¬ 
nance of any person so detained resulting from such suspension of 
deportation shall be paid from the u immigrant fund,” but no alien 
certified, as provided in section seventeen of this Act, to be suffering 
with a loathsome or with a dangerous contagious disease other than 
one of a quarantinable nature, shall be permitted to land for medical 
treatment thereof in the hospitals of the United States. 

Sec. 20. That any alien who shall come into the United States in 
violation of law, or who shall be found a public charge therein, from 
causes existing prior to landing, shall be deported as hereinafter pro¬ 
vided to the country whence he came at any time within two years 
after arrival at the expense, including one-half of the cost of inland 
transportation to the port of deportation, of the person bringing such 
alien into the United States, or, if that can not be done, then at the 
expense of the immigrant fund referred to in section one of this Act. 

Sec. 21. That in case the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor] shall be satisfied that an alien has been found in 
the United States in violation of this Act he shall cause such alien, 
within the period of three years after landing or entry therein, to be 
taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came, as 
provided in section twenty of this Act, or, if that can not be so done, 
at the expense of the immigrant fund provided for in section one of 
this Act; and neglect or refusal on the part of the masters, agents, 
owners, or consignees of vessels to comply with the order of the Sec¬ 
retary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor] to take on 
board, guard safely, and return to the country whence he came any 
alien ordered to be deported under the provisions of this section shall 
be punished by the imposition of the penalties prescribed in section 
nineteen of this Act. 

Sec. # 22. That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, in addi¬ 
tion to such other duties as may by law be assigned to him, shall, 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor] have charge of the administration of all laws 
relating to the immigration of aliens into the United States, and shall 
have the control, direction, and supervision of all officers, clerks, and 
employees appointed thereunder. He shall establish such rules and 
regulations, prescribe such forms of bonds, reports, entries, and other 
papers, and shall issue from time to time such instructions, not incon¬ 
sistent with law, as he shall deem best calculated for carrying out the 
provisions of this Act and for protecting the United States and aliens 
migrating thereto from fraud and loss, and shall have authority to 
enter into contracts for the support and relief of such aliens as may 
fall into distress or need public aid; all under the direction or with the 
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor]. And it shall be the duty of the Commissioner-General of 
Immigration to detail officers of the immigration service from time to 
time as may be necessary, in his judgment, to secure information as 
to the number of aliens detained in the penal, reformatory, and chari¬ 
table institutions (public and private) of the several States and Terri¬ 
tories, the District of Columbia, and other territory of the United 


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States, and to inform the officers of such institutions of the provisions 
of law in relation to the deportation of aliens who have become public 
charges: Provided , That the Commissioner-General of Immigration 
may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor], whenever in his judgment such action may be 
necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act, detail immigration 
officers for temporary service in foreign countries. 

Sec. 23. That the duties of the commissioners of immigration shall 
be of an administrative character, to be prescribed in detail by regu¬ 
lations prepared, under the direction or with the approval of the Sec¬ 
retary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor]. 

Sec. 2L That immigrant inspectors and other immigration officers, 
clerks, and employees shall hereafter be appointed, and their compen¬ 
sation fixed and raised or decreased from time to time, by the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor], upon the 
recommendation of the Commissioner-General of Immigration and in 
accordance with the provisions of the civil-service Act of January six¬ 
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty Three: Provided , That nothing 
herein contained shall be construed to alter the mode of appointing 
commissioners of immigration at the several ports of the United States 
as provided by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August 
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or the official status of 
such commissioners heretofore appointed. Immigration officers shall 
have power to administer oaths and to take and consider testimony 
touching the right of any alien to enter the United States, and, where 
such action may be necessary, to make a written record of such testi¬ 
mony, and any person to whom such an oath has been administered 
under the provisions of this Act who shall knowingly or willfully give 
false testimony or swear to any false statement in any way affecting 
or in relation to the right of an alien to admission to the United States 
shall be deemed guilty of perjury and be punished as provided by sec¬ 
tion fifty-three hundred and ninety-two, UnitedStates Revised Statutes. 
The decision of any such officer, if favorable to the admission*of any 
alien, shall be subject to challenge by any other immigration Mficer, 
and such challenge shall operate to take the alien whose right to land 
is so challenged before a board of special inquiiy for its investigation. 
Every alien who may not appear to the examining immigrant inspector 
at the port of arrival to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to land 
shall be detained for examination in relation thereto by a board of 
special inquiry. 

Sec. 25. That such boards of special inquiry shall be appointed by 
the commissioners of immigration at the various ports of arrival as 
may be necessary for the prompt determination of all cases of aliens 
detained at such ports under the provisions of law. Such boards shall 
consist of three members, who shall be selected from such of the immi¬ 
grant officials in the service as the Commissioner-General of Immigra¬ 
tion, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor], shall from time to time designate as qualified 
to serve on such boards: Provided ', That at ports where there are 
fewer than three immigrant inspectors, the Secretary of the Treas¬ 
ury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor], upon recommendation of tin' 
Commissioner-General of Immigration, may designate other United 
States officials for service on such boards of special inquiry. Such 
boards shall have authority to determine whether an alien who has 


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been duly held shall be allowed to land or be deported. All hearings 
before boards shall be separate and apart from the public, but the said 
boards shall keep complete permanent records of their proceedings 
and of all such testimony as may be produced before them; and the 
decision of any two members of a board shall prevail and be final, but 
either the alien or any dissenting member of said board may appeal, 
through the commissioner of immigration at the port of arrival and 
the Commissioner-General of Immigration, to the Secretary of the 
Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor], whose decision shall 
then be final; and the taking of such appeal shall operate to stay any 
action in regard to the final disposal of the alien whose case is so 
appealed until the receipt by the commissioner of immigration at the 
port of arrival of such decision. 

Se&* 2(5. That no bond or guaranty, written or oral, that an alien 
shall not become a public charge shall be received from any person, 
company, corporation, charitable or benevolent society or association 
unless authority to receive the same shall in each special case be given 
by the Commissioner-General of Immigration, with the written approval 
of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor]. 

Sec. 27. That no suitor proceeding for a violation of the provisions 
of this Act shall be settled, compromised, or discontinued without the 
consent of the court in which it is pending, entered of record, with the 
reasons therefor. 

Sec. 28. That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to 
affect any prosecution or other proceeding, criminal or civil, begun 
under any existing Act or any Acts hereby amended, but such prosecu¬ 
tions or other proceedings, criminal or civil, shall proceed as if this 
Act had not been passed. 

Sec. 29. That the circuit and district courts of the United States 
are hereby invested with full and concurrent jurisdiction of all causes, 
civil and criminal, arising under any of the provisions of this Act. 

Sec. 30. That after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and 
three, all exclusive privileges of exchanging money, transporting pas¬ 
sengers or baggage, or keeping eating houses, and all other like privi¬ 
leges in connection with any United States immigration station, shall 
be disposed of after public competition, subject to such conditions and 
limitations as the Commissioner-General of Immigration, under the 
direction or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Sec¬ 
retary of Commerce and Labor], may prescribe: Provided , That no 
intoxicating liquors shall be sold in any such immigrant station; that 
all receipts accruing from the disposal of such exclusive privileges as 
herein provided shall be paid into the United States Treasury to the 
credit of the immigrant fund provided for in section one of this Act. 

Sec. 31. That for the preservation of the peace, and in order that 
arrests may be made for crimes under the laws of the States and Ter¬ 
ritories of the United States where the various immigrant stations are 
located, the officers in charge of such stations, as occasion may require, 
shall admit therein the proper State and municipal officers charged 
with the enforcement of such laws, and for the purposes of this section 
the jurisdiction of such officers and of the local courts shall extend 
over such stations. 

Sec. 32. That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, under the 
direction or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secre¬ 
tary of Commerce and Labor], shall prescribe rules for the entry and 


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inpection of aliens along the borders of Canada and Mexico, so as not 
to unnecessarily delay, impede, or annoy passengers in ordinary travel 
between the United States and said countries, and shall have power 
to enter into contracts with foreign transportation lines for the same 
purpose. 

Sec. 33. That for the purposes of this Act the words “ United 
States” as used in the title as well as in the various sections of this 
Act shall be construed to mean the United States and any waters, 
territory or other place now subject to the jurisdiction thereof. 

Sec. 34. That no intoxicating liquors of any character shall be sold 
within the limits of the Capitol building of the United States. 

Sec. 35. That the deportation of aliens arrested within the United 
States after entry and found to be illegally therein, provided for in 
this act, shall be to the trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific ports from which 
said aliens embarked for the United States; or, if such embarkation 
was for foreign contiguous territory, to the foreign port at which said 
aliens embarked for such territory. 

Sec. 36. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act 
are hereby repealed: Provided , That this Act shall not be construed 
to repeal, alter, or amend existing laws relating to the immigration, 
or exclusion of Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent. 

Sec. 37. That whenever an alien shall have taken up his permanent 
residence in this country, and shall have tiled his preliminary declara¬ 
tion to become a citizen,- and thereafter shall send for his wife or minor 
children to join him, if said wife, or either of said children, shall be 
found to be affected with any contagious disorder, and if it is proved 
that said disorder was contracted on board the ship in which they came, 
and is so certitied by the examining surgeon at the port of arrival, such 
wife or children shall be held, under such regulations as the Secretary 
of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor] shall prescribe, 
until it shall be determined whether the disorder will be easily curable, 
or whether they can be permitted to land without danger to other 
persons; and they shall not be deported until such facts have been 
ascertained. 

Sec. 38. That no person who disbelieves in or who is opposed to all 
organized government, or who is a member of or affiliated with any 
organization entertaining and teaching such disbelief in or opposition 
to all organized government, or who advocates or .teaches the duty, 
necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any 
officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, 
of the Government of the United States or of any other organized 
government, because of his or their official character, shall be per¬ 
mitted to enter the United States or any Territory or place subject to 
the jurisdiction thereof. This section shall be enforced by the Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor] under such 
rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. 

That any person who knowingly aids or assists any such person to' 
enter the United States or any Territory or place subject to the juris¬ 
diction thereof, or who connives or conspires with any person or per¬ 
sons to allow, procure, or permit any such person to enter therein, 
except pursuant to such rules and regulations made by the Secretary 
of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce and Labor], shall be fined not 
more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less than one 
nor more than five years, or both. 


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Alaskan fur-seal fisheries, the National Bureau of Standards, Coast 
and Geodetic Survey, Census, Department of Labor, Fish Commission 
and to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Department of 
Commerce and Labor, and certify the balances arising thereon to the 
Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants and send forthwith a copy of 
each certificate to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 

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Sec. L That the following-named offices, bureaus, divisions, and 
branches of the public service, now and heretofore under the juris¬ 
diction of the Department of the Treasury, and all that pertains to the 
same, known as the Light-House Board, the Light-House Establish¬ 
ment, the Steamboat-Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, 
the United States Shipping Commissioners, the National Bureau of 
Standards, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Commissioner-General 
of Immigration, the commissioners of immigration, the Bureau of 
Immigration, the immigration service at large, and the Bureau of Sta¬ 
tistics, be, and the same hereby are, transferred from the Department 
of the Treasury to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and the 
same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of 
the last-named Department; * * 


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Sec. 7. That the jurisdiction, supervision and control now pos¬ 
sessed and exercised by the Department of the Treasury over the fur- 
seal, salmon and other fisheries of Alaska and over the immigration 
of aliens into the United States, its waters, territories and aii} T place 
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are hereby transferred and vested 
in the Department of Commerce and Labor: Provided , That nothing 
contained in this Act shall be construed to alter the method of collect¬ 
ing and accounting for the head-tax prescribed by section one of the 
Act entitled “An Act to regulate immigration,” approved August 
third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. That the authority, power 
and jurisdiction now possessed and exercised by the Secretary of the 
Treasury by virtue of any law in relation to the exclusion from and 
the residence within the United States, its territories and the District 
of Columbia, of Chinese and persons of Chinese descent, are hereby 
transferred to and conferred upon the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor, and the authority, power and jurisdiction in relation thereto 
now vested by law or treaty in the collectors of customs and the col¬ 
lectors of internal revenue, are hereby conferred upon and vested 
in such officers under the control of the Commissioner-General of 
Immigration, as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may desig¬ 
nate therefor. 


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Sec. 13. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and 
after its passage: Provided , however , That the provisions of this Act 
other than those of section twelve in relation to the transfer of any 
existing office, bureau, division, officer or other branch of the public 
service or authority now conferred thereon, to the Department of 
Commerce and Labor shall take effect and be in force on the first day 
of July, nineteen hundred and three, and not before. 

Approved, February 14, 1903. 


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Sec. 39. That no person who disbelieves in or who is opposed to all 
organized government, or who is a member of or affiliated with any 
organization entertaining and teaching such disbelief in or opposition 
to all organized government, or who advocates or teaches the duty, 
necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any 
officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, 
of the Government of the United States or of any other organized 
government, because of his or their official character, or who has vio¬ 
lated any of the provisions of this Act, shall be naturalized or be 
made a citizen of the United States. All courts and tribunals and all 
judges and officers thereof having jurisdiction of naturalization pro¬ 
ceedings or duties to perform in regard thereto shall, on the final 
application for naturalization, make careful inquiry into such matters, 
and before issuing the final order or certificate of naturalization cause 
to be entered of record the affidavit of the applicant and of his wit¬ 
nesses so far as applicable, reciting and affirming the truth of every 
material fact requisite for naturalization. All final orders and certifi¬ 
cates of naturalization hereafter made shall show on their face specific¬ 
ally that said affidavits were duly made and recorded, and all orders 
and certificates that fail to show such facts shall be null and void. 

That any person who purposely procures naturalization in violation 
of the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than five thou¬ 
sand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less than one nor more.than 
ten years, or both, and the court in which such conviction is had shall 
thereupon adjudge and declare the order or decree and all certificates 
admitting such person to citizenship null and void. Jurisdiction is 
hereby conferred on the courts having jurisdiction of the trial of such 
offense to make such adjudication. 

That any person who knowingly aids, advises, or encourages any 
such person to apply for or to secure naturalization or to file the pre¬ 
liminary papers declaring an intent to become a citizen of the United 
States, or who in any naturalization proceeding knowingly procures 
or gives false testimony as to any material fact, or who knowingly 
makes an affidavit false as to any material fact required to be proved 
in such proceeding, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, 
or imprisoned not less than one nor more than ten years, or both. 

The foregoing provisions concerning naturalization shall not be 
enforced until ninety days after the approval hereof. 

Approved, March 3, 1903. 


AN ACT to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor. 


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Sec. 2. That there shall be in said Department an Assistant Secretary 
of Commerce and Labor, to be appointed by the President, who shall 
receive a salary of five thousand dollars a year. He shall perform 
such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or required by law. 
There shall also be one chief clerk and a disbursing clerk and such 
other clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by 
Congress; and the Auditor for the State and other Departments shall 
receive and examine all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of 
the office of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and of all bureaus 
and offices under his direction, all accounts relating to the Light' 
Hoi ise Board, Steamboat-Inspection Service, Immigration, Navigation, 



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ACT OF MARCH 22, 1904. 

AN ACT to extend the exemption from head tax to citizens of Newfoundland 

entering the United States. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and I fame of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That section one, chapter ten 
hundred and twelve, of the Statutes at Large of the United States of 
America (Fifty-seventh Congress, second session), is hereby amended 
by inserting in line four, after the word “Canada,” the word “New¬ 
foundland,” so as to read as follows: 

“That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of two dol¬ 
lars for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States, 
or of the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of* Cuba, 
or of the Republic of Mexico, who shall come by steam, sail, or other 
vessel from any foreign port to any port within the United States, or 
by any railway or any other mode of transportation from foreign con¬ 
tiguous territory to the United States. The said duty shall be paid 
to the collector of customs of the port or customs district to which said 
alien passenger shall come, or, if there be no collector at such port or 
district, then to the collector nearest thereto by the master, agent, 
owner, or consignee of every such vessel or transportation line. The 
money thus collected shall be paid into the United States Treasury and 
shall constitute a permanent appropriation to be called the ‘immigrant 
fund,’ to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury 
[Secretary of Commerce and Labor] to defray the expense of regulat¬ 
ing the immigration of aliens into the United States under this Act, 
including the cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and 
digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner-General of Immigra¬ 
tion, and the salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees 
appointed for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act. 
The duty imposed by this section shall be a lien upon the vessels which 
shall bring such aliens to ports of the United States, and shall be a 
debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such 
vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced by any legal 
or equitable remedy. The head tax herein provided for shall not be 
levied upon aliens in transit through the United States nor upon aliens 
who have once been admitted into the United States and have paid the 
head tax who later shall go in transit from one part of the United 
States to another through foreign contiguous territory: Provided , 
That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, under the direction 
or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor], by agreement with transportation lines, as 
provided in section thirty-two of this Act, may arrange in some other 
manner for the payment of the duty imposed by this section upon 
aliens seeking admission overland, either as to all or as to any such 
aliens.” 

Approved, March 22, 1904 (33 Stat., part 1, page 144). 


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JOINT RESOLUTION amending an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of 
aliens into the United States,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and three. 


Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, Tliat the words “ Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury” wherever used in the Act entitled “An Act 
to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” 
approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, or in amend¬ 
ments thereto, or in prior acts in relation to alien immigration, be 
stricken out, and the words “Secretary of Commerce and Labor” 
inserted in lieu thereof. 

Approved, April 28, 1904 (83 Stat., part 1, p. 591). 


AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of 
the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, 
and for other purposes, approved February 3, 1905, under the head “Bureau of Immi¬ 
gration,” provides as follows: 


Provided , That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, with 
the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, shall have 
power to refund head tax heretofore and hereafter collected under 
section one of the immigration Act approved March third, nineteen 
hundred and three, upon presentation of evidence showing conclu¬ 
sively that such collection was erroneously made. 


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